Feel free to share these lists with your family and friends and especially share them with your local supermarkets and restaurants, schools or in your workplace. Everyone can help be the change we want for the sea.

Help drive change

Another good option is to buy your fish from retailers and restaurants that have made a clear public commitment to sourcing and selling better fish – they may not be perfect yet, but your support will encourage them on their journey.

And remember, if it is not labelled properly, and the fishmonger, shop owner or waiter can’t tell you what fish it is, where it's from and how it is caught, just don’t buy it.

The fish are on the Greenpeace Canada Seafood Red List because they have one or more of these issues:

They reproduce in a way that makes the very vulnerable to overfishing and is little or no data available to show that the stocks are healthy or that they are being fished at a sustainable rate. They are often sourced from overfished and depleted stocks, or are being fished at such a high rate that stocks are being depleted rapidly

The fishing methods used to catch the fish are often highly destructive to other oceans creatures and/or habitats.

How did these fish end up on the Red List?

CATCHES VULNERABLE SPECIES Fisheries exploit species that are highly vulnerable to fishing pressure with no evidence that stocks can be maintained at a health level and/or unintentionally catches and kills other endangered species like turtles, sharks or dolphins.

DESTRUCTIVE FISHING METHODS Fisheries use methods that damage the seabed or impact on sensitive habitats.

OVERFISHING Many stocks are overfished and/or management of the stocks is leading to their decline

UNSELECTIVE FISHING METHODS Fisheries use methods that capture high amounts of fish that are thrown back into the sea dead or dying or it catches high amounts of immature fish.

PIRATE FISHING In fisheries for this species pirate fishing (illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing) is a major problem (2).

Anglerfish or monkfish or goosefish

Atlantic cod

Atlantic halibut

Atlantic salmon

Common sole

Eel

European plaice

Greenland halibut

Haddock

Hake

Hoki or blue hake or blue grenadier

Marlin

Orange roughy or deep sea perch

Patagonian toothfish or Chilean seabass

Red fish or rockfish

Sharks

Skates and rays

Swordfish

Tropical shrimp/prawn

Tuna - main market species

Notes:

(1) Please check the species page on the Greenpeace Canada Red List for more information about aquaculture issues.

(2) Any fishery that operates in areas, or target species, for which no conservation and management measures exist are graded red. In regions where management exists, but IUU fishing is known to be a major problem, Greenpeace does not red-grade all fisheries in the area, but highlights the issue so that more care is taken when sourcing fish to prevent the trade of fish caught by owners and/or operators of vessels engaging in IUU. Please visit the pirate fishing pages and the Greenpeace 'red-grade' criteria for unsustainable fisheries for more details.